PaaS Cartridges and Polyglot Programming

Chris Haddad

Feb. 12, 13 · Interview

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DevOp teams want PaaS service efficiency with customization flexibility. Rather than fit development teams into a one-size-fits-all platform box, teams desire to extend a PaaS foundation with best-of-breed components, frameworks, and languages. While early 1.0 PaaS offerings (i.e. Google AppEngine, SalesForce.com) prescribed a specific development model and framework set, next-generation PaaS offers a polyglot PaaS and polyglot programming experience, delivering the ability to mix-and-match application platform capabilities into an customized application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) cloud.

To support a polyglot programming model, PaaS infrastructure must decouple and separate PaaS foundational infrastructure, PaaS services, and application platform components. A PaaS cartridge model encapsulates application platform components and links them to PaaS infrastructure components responsible for elastic scalability, resource pooling, on-demand self-service, and metering. Vendors describe the encapsulation wrapper as droplets (Cloud Fondry), dynos (Heroku), or cartridges (RedHat OpenShift, WSO2 Stratos).

The WSO2 Stratos 2.0 approach maintains multi-tenant shared container isolation for WSO2 Carbon application platform components, while also offering standard virtual machine and Linux container (LXC) isolation and tenancy for both Carbon and non-carbon components. A cartridge architecture supports a polyglot programming model that enables developers to mix-and-match programming languages (e.g. PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Java), frameworks (e.g. couchDb, MySQL, JEE), and application platform servers (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss) in the PaaS.

A demo ready Oracle VirtualBox image is available for quick and efficient evaluation, and the download version with LXC cartridges is available for a more detailed evaluation, and documentation to create your own cartridges is now available for review.

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